Heya all, ok this is my 4th go at growing my own medical mai jane, as far as the whole drying cycle, i am about to let you in on how the old timers have done it for centuries..generations.. to truely and fully dry you mari jane, u 1st must( i do it this way) i stop using nutrients after the indoor program to the T, i vegged it for 6 weeks and budded it for 6 weeks, after the 3 month period was done, i had 2 different strains, 1 was a a WW/NL cross/hybrid, and the other was a pure 100% Afganni(typo), after the 3 month total veg+bud i fed them nothing but distilled water throughout the 3 months, i then feed it nothing but distilled water for 10 days(usually every other day and i would feed them 3 Liters for the BIG NL/WW, and 2Liters for the Affghanni,, then after the 10 days of nothing but water( reason i use the water trick is) that u need to clean out all the chemicles that u have been feeding them the last 3 months or their entire lives, i then dry them the way u will ALWAYS use after using it once, u dry it out nothing at all for 10 days, at the bottome of the plant the stem is like a tree, take an exacto knife and cut a 1" strip around the circumfrence of the plant/tree, what that does it foreces the plant to give its last attemt at feeding the buds with all the nutrients remaining in the stem/leaves the plant at about the 7th or 8th day starts wilting, its trying to take as much water from the plant as possible for the budds last final days to feed the budds the 400 diff forms of THC/cannaboids, ok u have done 70% of the drying by doing what i mentioned above, when u r ready to harvest them u bring the entire plant in the living room(if done in dirt) and go branch by branch snipping the I call them arms/elbows the leave are all wilted downwards exposing 90%+ og the entire bud, it is AMAZING site to watch, u then put all the arms/elbows on your glass table to waxed paper covered tablle to collect 2 million+ tri chromes, you then take a arm/elbow snip it in to so its easily hanged, u then get theColla, u lave that bad boy intact as much as possible, instead of drying it for 7 to 10 days dry time, it is only 3 to 4 days and ZERO chance at mold iff u crack a window or 2 open and have a fan under them not in direct contact, after the drying is down wich is the easiest and best way, the plant does 90% of the work, people say u can cure your mari jane in 5 or 6 days, never, well u can but if u r smoking it why would u not cut off all the 1/4 gr buddlies put them inna glass air tight jar cure+smoke and cure the 99% rest the proper way in a dark room cool, 3 hours closed or till u see moisture then u open it shake them around talk to them for 30 mins or so, then rinse repeat that 4 or 5 times daily for 30 to 45 days if u have smoke and can hold out cure it for 2 months, u can introduce 1/4 slice Granny Smiths apple, works if u dried it to much + i gives a nice flavor aroma, and if u follow each step, by step, i promise your buds never tasted so great, gowing Mari is like the old farmers tale about the PAPPA BULL and the son bull, the sone bull says to PAPPA BULL, why dont we run down there and find us one girl friend each.... PAPPA BULL syas son relax take our time and walk down and have them ALL, it ususally take 4 months from strat to finish(not curing) 1 month for curing, and write everything down, u r not going to get caught growing 2 or 3 plants, write everyt5hing down, so next time u know when is the proper time to start harvesting, there a thing called the 2 week budding window, if u get it early in the 2 week cycle its a happy go lucky lmao kind of buzzes, it u cut near the end its more a body buzz, i like having both, i put a 10 week strain in with my 8week strain and harvest them right at 10 weeks so the 8 week'r is at the end of the 2 week time, i know its only a weed, but its a very complicated weed, and if u know the basics only good thangs to come, i thank my 67 yr old sapniard for telling me the way his family has been ding it for generations, and i am sharing my blessings to you, mari Jane is made to be used NOT abused, u can oly get so wasted, why smoke 4 rockets thinking yer going to reach cloud 9, if u follow what i have written above u will get the best bud u ever had, oh ya feeding them tap water is wrong, feed them rain water or distilled water it has a perfect PH balance plus it does not react to any TDS total disolved salts, they have electrical currents that cause the PH lvels+ overall nutrient numbers, trust me u will agree with me when u light up the first rocket, u will sit back and say Greeko the MAN!!! the MYTH........ THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hehe sorry for the 2500 word essay lol
thanks for reading it and tell me what u think, or if u have a story simular lets hear it
hang loose
Greeko out..
ps i am writing a book not a grow bible, but just a hand book capable of turning the average joe into a master of the budlies, i have traveled around the worldand have smoked weed that was orange, some that was bluey purple and just recently i smoked some purple kush, and MAN have u eveer seen a purple bud growing on a plant, it looks like a purple fish in the coral..